OPINIONS & COMMENTARY

For years, you drive past a patch of forest. Then, one day, trees are cut down.

Construction vehicles are clearing the land. What happened to the woods? What are they putting there?

We tend to think that once something is there, it will be there forever. That’s really not the case –especially when it comes to nature. Unless it is specifically preserved as open space, it will one day be a development.

Every square inch of your town is accounted for. A town labels every lot with a certain zone. They might be residential, commercial, industrial, or some combination. It gets further broken down – one area might be zoned for single family homes while another might be multi-family